Suffering Quotes - page 6

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind. (Eyvind Johnson)
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way. View quote
Ayn Rand
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong. View quote
Thomas Hardy
My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. View quote
Ted Kennedy
Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself. View quote
James Frey
The true messianism of the Russian Church is not what the Slavophiles have imagined, but it is the example of suffering. It is in this way that she shows that she is the continuation of Christ in this world. View quote
Leonid Feodorov
My suffering left me sad and gloomy. View quote
Yann Martel
Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice. View quote
José Rizal
We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of conspiring to teach [us] to do,' but this rotten, decadent, putrid industrial capitalist system which breeds such suffering in the whited sepulcher of New York. View quote
Dorothy Day
The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region. View quote
Xi Jinping
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. (James Frazer)
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. View quote
Otto Dix
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. View quote
Viktor Frankl
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. View quote
Italo Calvino
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. View quote
Chinua Achebe
But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago. View quote
Merton Miller
What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent. We are in the midst of unparalleled difficulties and untold sufferings; we have been through dark days of apprehension and anguish; but I can say with confidence that with courage and self-reliance and by the Grace of God we shall emerge triumphant. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause. View quote
Henry James
For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
The SF created us to enjoy our suffering. ... The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans. (Paul Erdős)
The cross is a very powerful symbol and it symbolizes suffering, but it also is connected to a person who was loving and sharing and his message was about unconditional love. I tried to take a powerful image and use it to draw attention to a situation that needs attention. For me, we all need to be Jesus in our time. Jesus' message was to love your neighbor as yourself and these are people in need. View quote
Madonna (entertainer)
(...) Suffering is a call for enquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror-like mind, which reflects all, without being affected. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters. View quote
W. H. Auden